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Today was the first day of the second semester and the first day of Western Civilization. We started reading about Mesopotamia in class and taking notes on it. Here are questions 1 & 3 in the textbook.
1) Fertile Crescent: The curved shaped region in Southwest Asia with rich, fertile land.
Mesopotamia: The lands facing the Meditteranean Sea and the plains included the Fertile Crescent.
City-state: A city and the surrounding land that it controlled.
Dynasty: A series of rulers from a single family.
Cultural Diffusion: The process in which a new idea or a product spreads from one culture to another.
Polytheism: The belief in more than one specific God.
Empire: Several peoples, nations, or previously independent states under control of one ruler.
Hammurabi: The ruler of the Babylonia Empire from 1792 BC to 1750 BC.
3) Three challenges were unpredictable flooding combined with a period of little to no rain, no natural barriers fro protection, and limited natural resources.
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